Skips And Slides
. Author: Mike Campese
. Publisher: Guitar Player Magazine
. Category: Blues, Acoustic, Rock, Theory/Techniques
. Description: There’s probably no better way to learn your way around the fretboard than to burn some scale patterns into your fingertips. But as helpful as scales are, these melodic roadmaps can also be constricting. Many guitarists complain that when they’re improvising melodically, they often feel stuck playing in scalar motion—that is, they constantly find themselves moving stepwise either up or down the scale, lacking other approaches that might make leads and melodies more exciting.
One surefire way of pulling a different sound out of scales you already know is to break up that stepwise motion using skips and slides. Hang in there and really fight to keep these moves loose, musical, and organic sounding, perhaps by surrounding jagged statements like these with sweeter, more lyrical phrases.
Skip and slide your way through these four examples...
. Length: 7:15 min; File Size: 3463KB
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